The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving

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FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF THE LATE DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dr ...

From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who ...

they entered that sleepy region, they are sure, in a little time, to inhale the witching inf ...

by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it. From hence the low murmur of his pupils’ voices, conning ...

empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating. He found favor in the eyes of the mothe ...

appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and ...

what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some ...

then stole sparkling away through the grass, to a neighboring brook, that babbled along among alders and ...

realized his hopes, and presented to him the blooming Katrina, with a whole family of children, mounted ...

encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset eve ...

as it is termed, “sparking,” within, all other suitors passed by in despair, and carried the war into other quar ...

feud gradually arose between him and the preceptor of Sleepy Hollow. Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry ...

and having delivered his message with that air of importance, and effort at fine language, which a negro is ...

altogether such an apparition as is seldom to be met with in broad daylight. It was, as I have said, ...

without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a ...

mention broiled shad and roasted chickens; together with bowls of milk and cream, all mingled higgledy-piggled ...

When the dance was at an end, Ichabod was attracted to a knot of the sager folks, who, with Old Van Ta ...